RFC: Primary architecture promotion requirements

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Mar 22 01:02:59 UTC 2012


Jesse Keating wrote:
> Arm emulation would go a long way toward validating produced install
> images too.  Those of us that validate x86 images depend heavily on KVM
> and the like.

But full system emulation is slower by a LARGE factor, not merely the 2 to 4 
Jaroslav quoted for OBS, which (according to Dennis) is using a hybrid setup 
including some host and cross tools and QEMU userspace emulation as a 
fallback, NOT full system emulation.

        Kevin Kofler



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